Bills Pending Indiana House Public Health Committee

Study committee on patient restraint. Urges the legislative council to assign to an appropriate interim study committee in the 2019 interim the study of the use of restraints in specified health care settings.[Detail][Text][Discuss]

Syringe exchange program. Requires the state health commissioner to appoint a panel to hold a public hearing to determine whether to operate a syringe exchange program in a county if the Indiana state department of health determines from available da...[Detail][Text][Discuss]

Inpatient addiction treatment. Provides that when determined by the treatment plan to be medically necessary, the office of Medicaid policy and planning shall provide coverage for inpatient detoxification using the American Society of Addiction Medic...[Detail][Text][Discuss]

Medicaid reimbursement for tubal ligation study. Requires that, before August 1, 2019, the office of the secretary of family and social services (office of the secretary) study Medicaid reimbursement rates for tubal ligation procedures and sets forth...[Detail][Text][Discuss]

Veterinary prescriptions. Limits an opioid prescription for an animal to a seven day supply unless a listed exception applies. Allows a veterinarian to obtain information about the owner of the animal or the individual to whom an opioid or benzodiaze...[Detail][Text][Discuss]

Public health matters. Amends the definition of "food instrument" to state that a participant under the federal Women, Infants, and Children program uses an electronic benefit transfer card to obtain food. Requires the state department of health (dep...[Detail][Text][Discuss]

Medicaid managed care matters. Establishes the joint commission on Medicaid oversight with the authority to meet throughout the year. Sets forth responsibilities of the commission. Repeals a statute specifying that Medicaid laws, with respect to mana...[Detail][Text][Discuss]

Tobacco issues. Increases the cigarette tax from $0.995 per pack to $1.995 per pack. Raises the age from 18 years of age to 21 years of age for prohibitions and crimes concerning the sale, purchase, and possession of cigarettes and other tobacco prod...[Detail][Text][Discuss]

Cigarette taxes. Increases the cigarette tax by $2 to $2.995 per pack of regular size cigarettes and a corresponding increase for larger cigarettes. Appropriates for each year of the 2019-2021 biennium $35,000,000 from the tobacco master settlement a...[Detail][Text][Discuss]

Prescription price. Requires a retail pharmacy, before dispensing a prescription, to inform an insured patient of the cost of the drug or device without insurance or an applicable discount, if the cost of the drug or device is less than the copayment...[Detail][Text][Discuss]

Medicaid nursing facility services. Extends the prohibition on the office of Medicaid policy and planning from including certain Medicaid recipients who receive nursing facility services in a Medicaid risk based managed care program or a capitated ma...[Detail][Text][Discuss]

Medical cannabis pilot program. Establishes a five-year medical cannabis pilot program, administered by the state department of health, to permit the use of medical cannabis in Indiana. Imposes a medical cannabis cultivation tax.[Detail][Text][Discuss]

Medical marijuana. Permits the use of medical marijuana by persons with serious medical conditions as determined by their physician. Establishes a medical marijuana program to permit the cultivation, processing, testing, transportation, and dispensin...[Detail][Text][Discuss]

Consent to pregnancy services of a minor. Allows a minor who is at least 16 years of age and: (1) pregnant; (2) in labor; or (3) postpartum; to consent to health care concerning the pregnancy, delivery, and pospartum care. Makes technical corrections...[Detail][Text][Discuss]

Mental health and addiction services. Requires that the office of the secretary of family and social services prepare and submit a report that: (1) identifies certain administrative and reporting requirements that are unnecessary or overly burdensome...[Detail][Text][Discuss]

Study impact of the opioid crisis. Requires the legislative council to assign to the appropriate interim study committee the study of the impact of the opioid crisis, particularly the unforeseen consequences of the opioid crisis.[Detail][Text][Discuss]

Rehabilitation and community based services. Requires the division of disability and rehabilitative services (division) to establish a statewide crisis assistance system program for individuals with developmental disabilities and sets forth requireme...[Detail][Text][Discuss]

Prescription drug pricing study committee. Urges the legislative council to assign to the interim study committee on public health, behavioral health, and human services the task of studying issues related to prescription drug price transparency by d...[Detail][Text][Discuss]

Advanced practice registered nurses. Allows an advanced practice registered nurse who: (1) had primary responsibility for the treatment and care of a deceased individual for a period longer than six months; and (2) pronounced the time of death for th...[Detail][Text][Discuss]

Newborn infants and hospital requirements. Requires a hospital to implement a policy that establishes protocols for hospital staff to follow concerning transportation of a newborn infant if the hospital is unable to provide the necessary care for the...[Detail][Text][Discuss]

Infant mortality collaborative. Establishes the infant mortality reduction collaborative (collaborative) to be staffed by the state department of health. Sets forth duties of the collaborative.[Detail][Text][Discuss]

School radon testing and abatement. Requires the state department of health (department) to consider establishing a program of: (1) testing for radon gas; and (2) abatement of radon gas; in public school buildings. Requires the department to consider...[Detail][Text][Discuss]

Mental health matters. Requires the office of the secretary of family and social services (office) to apply for a state plan amendment that would require Medicaid reimbursement for eligible Medicaid rehabilitation option services provided in a school...[Detail][Text][Discuss]

Health facility requirements concerning residents. Requires a health facility to disclose to each prospective resident in writing information concerning the long term care ombudsman, including contact information for the long term care ombudsman. Req...[Detail][Text][Discuss]

Testing of school age children for lead poisoning. Requires the state department of health (state department) to identify those areas of Indiana in which the risk of lead ingestion by children is so high that, in the judgment of the state health comm...[Detail][Text][Discuss]

Medical cannabis. Defines "qualifying patient", and permits a qualifying patient to use medical cannabis under certain circumstances. Requires the state department of health to adopt rules before July 1, 2020: (1) concerning the use, distribution, cu...[Detail][Text][Discuss]

Strategic plan on dementia. Requires the state department of health to develop a strategic plan concerning dementia in Indiana. Establishes the Indiana dementia council (council) and sets forth duties of the council. Beginning June 30, 2021, requires...[Detail][Text][Discuss]

Medical marijuana. Permits the cultivation, dispensing, and use of medical marijuana by persons with serious medical conditions. Requires the state department of health to implement and enforce the medical marijuana program. Prohibits discrimination ...[Detail][Text][Discuss]

Transmission of communicable diseases. Amends the information that the state department of health must provide to a pregnant woman concerning the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). Amends the definition of "high risk activity". Repeals the definitio...[Detail][Text][Discuss]

Drug crisis task force. Establishes the drug crisis task force to prepare an evidence based comprehensive plan that prioritizes the one time and annual funding needed over a 10 year period to address the drug crisis. Sets forth membership and duties ...[Detail][Text][Discuss]

Medicaid waiver priority status for military child. Requires the office of the secretary of family and social services to apply, before July 1, 2019, to the United States Department of Health and Human Services for an amendment to the family and supp...[Detail][Text][Discuss]

Vital records. Provides that a parent may request a certificate of birth resulting in stillbirth when the child had a gestation age of less than 20 weeks. Specifies that a burial transit permit is required for the report of death and transportation a...[Detail][Text][Discuss]

Provider diagnostic information release. Requires a health care provider, upon the request of a patient or the patient's designee, to provide the diagnostic billing code and procedural billing code for each diagnosis and health care procedure rendere...[Detail][Text][Discuss]

Advanced practice registered nurses. Provides that an advanced practice registered nurse with prescriptive authority and who has operated under a practice agreement with a practitioner for at least one year may operate without a practice agreement if...[Detail][Text][Discuss]

Fertility fraud. Provides that a physician who treats a patient of that physician for infertility: (1) by using the physician's own spermatozoon or ovum, without the patient's consent; or (2) by using donated human reproductive material without the c...[Detail][Text][Discuss]

INSPECT program. Moves existing language concerning the central repository for controlled substances data from Title 35 to Title 25 and makes conforming changes. Authorizes a practitioner's board to discipline the practitioner when there is a complai...[Detail][Text][Discuss]

Medicaid prescription drug program. Requires the office of the secretary of family and social services to provide a prescription drug benefit for a Medicaid recipient under: (1) the risk based managed care program; and (2) the healthy Indiana plan. (...[Detail][Text][Discuss]

Ban on conversion therapy. Prohibits a mental health provider from engaging in conversion therapy with a patient less than 18 years of age, and subjects a mental health provider who violates the prohibition to disciplinary action.[Detail][Text][Discuss]